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Ok, so I played around a little bit with positioning elements on a screen tonight and I thought I would pass along my thoughts. The official documentation lists the my: at: and of: properties. It’s actually a pretty powerful tool and the first time you look at it you might go “huh”. I think it’s […]

Ok, I have been reading Modern PHP by Josh Lockhart and I came across something that I never even knew that I could use to immediately update my code and that is generators. If you don’t know what they are, they are basically one way iterators without all the fancy stuff. But the greatest use […]

Ok, this is going to be a short post since I am in the middle of a rollout. But I am transferring some pages over and I want to make sure customers don’t lose bookmarks that they have, so I redirect with PHP header tags. Well, you ever thought what would happen if you have […]

Programmers, or at least those serious about security and encryption, will tell you that the only way to be secure is not have a remember me function anyways. In addition to that, you would also not have a reset password functionality either. But we all know in today’s world, you almost have to have it […]

So this is an interesting problem that I think others may have run into that I wanted to share my solution to. We have an internal application that has a large pre-compilation report based upon thousands of chemicals within thousands of products. It takes a trained eye to literally go through all of those products […]

Ok, hopefully this post will help someone out there who was struggling with the same thing I was today. It’s a bit of a technical post but I hope it helps highlight the thinking and difference between a language like PHP and JavaScript. In my mind, I think PHP is a more straightforward program. Things […]

Just a small blurb about a problem I ran into today that I wanted to pass along. I have a kind of feature in an app that when you tab off the last element of a row, it gives you a brand new row to work on in the same table. (Think tabular data here). […]

Ok, a quick little post about some weird happenings with jquery UI datepickers and dialogs and some weird things. I am working on an application that opens alternate dialogs (dialog on top of another dialog) with text fields that are turned into datepickers on the focus event. Well, if you know anything about the behavior […]

Ok, another PHP post but this time it’s about setting up some middleware for a slim PHP application. Let me set this up. We are building a simple REST API for use with a basic phone native app (both Android and iOS). Me being new to this, I wasn’t sure if the native app domain […]

Ok, I had some trouble running across some Linux setup stuff when it comes to running cron jobs for PHP scripts that I wanted to pass along in a helpful post. We had some cron jobs that were running weekly and monthly for a long time in the old CGI environment. They were working just […]